@Barcafan
My links talk about sold numbers because FallenAngel1984 was talking about sold numbers. I was helping make a slight correction to the number he gave out. Notice how he explicitly mentions that these numbers are sold, not shipped?
Edit: Oh man, he got spammed pretty quick.
That’s not quite correct. PS4 sold 30.2M consoles after exactly 24 months. They did hit 35.9M after that years holiday season though.
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I’m not sure about that. I don’t think Microsoft wants to make the same mistake twice.
PS4 with two major releases only sold around 215 more units than the Switch with no major new releases.
Congratulations!
It’s comparing exclusive sales throughout the whole year though.
Meaning Smash sold more in one month of 2018 in US than Spider-Man did in three months of 2018 in US.
Is that you Lime?
“A successful system every now and again”
Every generation Nintendo has a successful system.
Hey, look at that. Might prediction was almost right on point. I guessed that the Switch would sell around 80k this week. I'm thinking next week might be around 50k to 60k though.
@Teflon02
It might be due to NSMB taking the spotlight. In the next few weeks I'd expect it to start selling better on Switch, kind of like Dragon Quest Builders 2.
@kain
I mean overall, including third party software.
This sites community is overwhelmingly biased towards PlayStation, so according to people on here it won’t.
Completely depends on your perspective though. They’ve more first party titles but less third party titles. They’ll have greater hardware sold but less software sold (due to install base of competition). Review scores are hard to judge.
*Link* has been able to jump since Links Awakening. Jumping mechanics isn’t why it was called innovative. You should try playing the series before saying they are just firsts for Zelda games.
@Lime123
Next week I think it'll still be at 80k or so because of New Super Mario Bros Deluxe. After that it will probably track around the 50k mark. Which, if you calculate it out, 1,500,000 units/50,000 units per week = 30 weeks. Which is around 7 months. So, if my prediction is accurate, the Switch should outsell the PS4 completely around July.
Actually, looking up official numbers the Wii was at 6.91M as of 9/31/08. Which is, what, 22 months after launch?
Meanwhile, the Switch is at 7.04 million units 21 months after launch. So it’s actually doing a bit better than the Wii.
@Eonjay
No it doesn’t, you’re misunderstanding. My prediction takes into account the 2:1 ratio as if it’s flat. That’s why I said it would surpass PS4 after selling 1.5M. That’s taking into account that PS4 will sell half that amount (750k) then adding the current 700k lead it has.
Also, you aren’t taking into account games like Fire Emblem, which may increase the ratio just like Kingdom Hearts may decrease the ratio.
@EonJay
The Switch only has to sell around 700k more to surpass PS4 currently. Even if the ratio remains 2:1 then Switch will surpass it after selling only 1.5M more (since then the PS4 will sell around 750k plus the 700k lead they have now).
I think they’ll pass that sooner than October.
None of the other big three are offering portable devices at the moment, so I'm glad Nintendo is still here. Portable gaming is under appreciated, and your comment comes off trollish.
He wasn’t talking about Pokémon:Let’s Go.
Most other developers don’t have the daunting task of animating and modeling over 800 individual characters not including NPC’s and the environments therein.
So, I absolutely believe them when they say it’s five times harder than others think.
Yeah, but you have to pay for PS+ otherwise you don’t get a lot of features, like free games on PS3/Vita nor do you get cloud saves. PS3 doesn’t have party chat either, so I don’t see how the free version of PSN on PS3 has more features than the Switch. Aside from messaging friends, I guess.